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Advice to a Prophet and other poems / Richard Wilbur.
LIBRA PS3545.I32165 A7
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC95 W6143 956a 1961
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curry, Dave (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Wilbur, Richard, 1921- (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 64 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Other Title:
- Advice to a Prophet & other poems
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., [1961]
- Contents:
- Two voices in a meadow
- Advice to a prophet
- Stop
- Junk
- Loves of the puppets
- A summer morning
- A hole in the floor
- Guillén: The horses
- Guillén: Death, from a distance
- She
- Gemini
- The undead
- October maples, Portland
- Eight riddles from Symphosius
- Shame
- A grasshopper
- Quasimodo: The Agrigentum Road
- The Aspen and the stream
- A fire-truck
- Someone talking to himself
- In the smoking-car
- Ballade for the Duke of Orleans
- Nerval: Antéros
- To Ishtar
- Pangloss's song
- Two quatrains for first frost
- Another voice
- Molière: Tartuffe, Act I, Scene 4
- Fall in Corrales
- Next door
- A Christmas hymn.
- Notes:
- Author's fourth collection of poetry.
- "First Edition."
- "Jacket design by Betty Anderson."
- Black cloth spine stamped in gold; front cover has white marbled paper with gold design.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "For Dave Curry with best regards, Richard Wilbur. Portland 1962."
- OCLC:
- 290829
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